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Merged mining is a technique where the same proof of work can be used to secure more than one block in different hash chains. This allows a miner to mine more than one currency at a time and contribute his hashing power to all of them.

What restrictions are imposed by merged mining on the structure or functionality of a side chain (besides it having to use the same PoW schema)? For example, could the side chain have a higher block ...

How do you claim a block reward on a merged chain?
If I understood it right: let's say you are mining Bitcoin and Namecoin. When you find the solution to a BTC block, you include a transaction in the ...

I am struggling to understand the concept of "side-chains" that's discussed a lot lately, but never trully explained.
How I understand "side-chain": it's an altcoin, with a separate blockchain, with ...

I have been able to mine successfully on my bitcoin p2pool. I set up merge mining according to the guide found here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0 and everything seems to be running ...

Supporting merged mining allows a cryptocurrency A to improve the security its blockchain (increase the hash rate) by accepting work done on the blockchain of cryptocurrency B through insertion of a ...

I've been reading around the last day or so on merged mining for coins, in specific scrypt coins but there seems to be conflicting answers, can someone let me know which of the following is correct
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For a definitive record is it possible to determine if a namecoin block was generated via merged mining? Is so which was the first one.
Which is the first bitcoin block to have namecoin information ...